Had a go at phone apps and ran into Smartify: LG TV remote control by Kraftwerk 9 Inc.
Download, pair, hope, but the next day when I wanted to turn the TV on it told me it couldn't find any devices.
Well DOH it was turned off. m( That's not how this is supposed to work.
iOS search has become very weird. I would have expected LG ThinQ up there in the first results,
but only found it by googling and running into a tutorial video.
Setup is too annoying. It requires an account, which I haven't bothered pairing with the device BTW,
just paired the phone to grant access.
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BT remained off. Exact location once, then just generally and only when the app is open, no, I don't want push notifications.
It works though. The TV is in there, I renamed it to something shorter, can just pick it in the overview,
then hit the power button icon and that's it. I only wish the app had a dark mode.
It would probably work with those 70 TVs in the lab but I imagine one would get lost in a sea of icons
and get burnout from scrolling.
Now if only I were able to get the LG companion on PC to only act on shutdown and ignore reboots.
Or I've done something wrong, except for once on reboot it shut the TV down every time.
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Second day of turning it on via ThinQ - it works. Nice.
That pesky issue about the audio mode not sticking and reverting back to AI gaming.
The gaming subsettings for Std, RTS and what ever else there was, on the right side
of that menu there is a Game-Optimizer button, it's a button, not just saying Game-Optimizer.
In there you can do fine tuning, one of which is a toggle called Sound - AI-GameSound or
something like that. My menu's in German. Once turned off it doesn't force that mode anymore.
I must have been blind all this time.
And it looks like LG doesn't care. AI-GameSound is turned off in the Gaming Mode settings but still keeps reverting.
I tried Apple's HomeKit, added the TV but neither Siri via voice command nor just hitting the button on the control center screen do anything. That's some messed up design. I can turn the TV off but not on again.
So ThinQ it is. That works realiably.
Since the black screensaver after 2 minutes keeps bugging out because various apps just block it, I looked into the LG Companion settings again. In the additional options under advanced power
there's an automatically blank option. Default is set to 10 minutes, I dropped it to 2. That works
out. The screen just blanks after those 2 minutes without input. You'll just have to wiggle the
mouse when playing games or watching a video on the screen. There's always something.
I've meanwhile tried playing older games such as GTA V. Back then they didn't have more than
60FPS in mind it seems. VSync on or off, it's flickering left and right. In the LG onscreen menu
I keep FPS jumping between 120 and 40 randomly. Hitting ALT R for the nV display keeps showing
a steady 59FPS without moving a bit. Setting VSync to half seems to make it better.
Otherwise I'll have to drop to 60Hz before starting games and see if that makes a difference.
Is this a common problem? Am I imagining things?